City officials on Friday said 13 additional emergency shelters that were opened in response to the migrant crisis will close by June 2025.
The announcement comes a month after Mayor Eric Adams said 25 other sites would be closing by March 2025, including the shelters at Floyd Bennett Field and Randall’s Island.
Ten of the 13 shelters that will shutter by June have already been selected, and three more will be finalized “in the coming days,” the city said.
The finalized closures include Hall Street Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, which houses approximately 3,500 migrants, the city said.
The other shelters whose closures have been finalized include:
- BK Way in Brooklyn
- Holiday Inn Express in Brooklyn
- The VYBE BK in Brooklyn
- 99 Washington Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center in Manhattan
- The Stewart Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center in Manhattan
- The Watson Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Center in Manhattan
- Hotel Nedia in Queens
- Holiday Inn/Staten Island Inn on Staten Island
- Ramada in Yonkers
The city said it will also open a “smaller brick-and-mortar congregate facility” on Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx for single adult male migrants, who will be transferred from the Randall’s Island tent-based emergency center.
According to the city, the latest round of closures will result in a capacity reduction of approximately 10,000 beds for migrants in “oversaturated areas” of Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The city said it plans for more than 20% of the emergency shelters it opened in response to the migrant crisis to be closed by June.
“The additional closures we are announcing today, provides yet another example of our continued progress and the success of our humanitarian efforts to care for everyone throughout our system,” Adams said in a statement. “Our intensive and smart efforts have helped more than 178,000 asylum seekers — 78% of the migrants who have ever been in our care — take the next steps on their journeys towards pursuing the American Dream.”
“We will continue to do everything we can to help migrants become self-sufficient, while finding more opportunities to save taxpayer money and turn the page on this unprecedented humanitarian crisis,” Adams added.
The city said it plans to work with local nonprofits to assist migrants with services that support their journey towards self-sufficiency.